Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Charitable Collections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988, and shall come into force on 1st September 1988.

(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Public Charitable Collections (Scotland) Regulations in 1984(2).

Opening of collecting boxes and envelopes

2. In place of regulation 10(2)(c) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following:-

"(c)if the collection is not an envelope collection the person opening the collecting boxes shall note the number on each collecting box and, in the case of a collection not opened by an employee of a bank, shall record the amount of money in it and convey this information to the organiser.".

Accounts

3. In place of regulation 11(5)(b) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following:-

"(b)in relation to a collection which is not an envelope collection, by a list showing the distinguishing numbers of all collection boxes issued and, in the case of a collection not opened by an employee of a bank, by a list of the amounts collected in each collection box issued.".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide for the exemption of banks from the requirement to record the contents of individual collecting boxes when opening and counting their contents on behalf of the organisers of public charitable collections.